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Camp 35th Regt. N.C.T
Near Kenansville N.C. Feby 12th/ 63
Dear Mother
I received your of the 6th just day before yesterday and you see I did not have time to answer it in time for you to get the answer before Pompay should come to Raleigh and be obliged to leave as it is tho he should have come down yesterday evening he has not arrived here yet + I am afraid he may have been taken sick.
Just after I had finished + sealed my letter to you of the 5 [illegible] which I hope you have before this received I was ordered on picket duty about a mile and a half from camp and you can imagine what a time I had. It was raining as you know at 4 pm when I started out and it rained without intermission all night + till 12 m next day and in this country the rain does not it seem soak in the ground as much as it does at Raleigh and when I got to picket ground the whole place was covered with water about an inch deep. There was no covering of any sort whatever at the place and we had just to stand up and take it you may pity the night we passed.
Day before yesterday I had another opportunity to [illegible] it on the light fantastic, there was a Ball given by the 11th Regt. Pettigrews Brigade and I having obtained permission attended it and enjoyed myself. I enjoyed myself much more than I otherwise would for before going to the Ball I went to see Bob Peebles staying at a Mr. Middletons at Magnolia and it so happened that there was a bridal party staying at his house with all the bridesmaids and Peebles having introduced me I Escorted all of them to the Ball Miss Martin sister of the groom Lt. Col. Martin of the 11th Regt. I also met there a Miss Everett who informed me she had been to school at Saint Marys with sister and who I found a most agreeable lady indeed and very intelligent she said she was a particular friend of sisters and I was very glad to hear it since I was much pleased with her indeed though she was not very pritty [sic]

Camp 35th Regt. N.C.T
Near Kenansville N.C. Feby 12th/ 63
Dear Mother
I received your of the 6th just day before yesterday and you see I did not have time to answer it in time for you to get the answer before Pompay should come to Raleigh and be obliged to leave as it is tho he should have come down yesterday evening he has not arrived here yet + I am afraid he may have been taken sick.
Just after I had finished + sealed my letter to you of the 5 [illegible] which I hope you have before this received I was ordered on picket duty about a mile and a half from camp and you can imagine what a time I had. It was raining as you know at 4 pm when I started out and it rained without intermission all night + till 12 m next day and in this country the rain does not it seem soak in the ground as much as it does at Raleigh and when I got to picket ground the whole place was covered with water about an inch deep. There was no covering of any sort whatever at the place and we had just to stand up and take it you may pity the night we passed.
Day before yesterday I had another opportunity to [illegible] it on the light fantastic, there was a Ball given by the 11th Regt. Pettigrews Brigade and I having obtained permission attended it and enjoyed myself. I enjoyed myself much more than I otherwise would for before going to the Ball I went to see Bob Peebles staying at a Mr. Middletons at Magnolia and it so happened that there was a bridal party staying at his house with all the bridesmaids and Peebles having introduced me I Escorted all of them to the Ball Miss Martin sister of the groom Lt. Col. Martin of the 11th Regt. I also met there a Miss Everett who informed me she had been to school at Saint Marys with sister and who I found a most agreeable lady indeed and very intelligent she said she was a particular friend of sisters and I was very glad to hear it since I was much pleased with her indeed though she was not very pritty [sic]